Super Sunday Stepping Stones
Dancers live with constant criticism. This makes it
difficult to maintain a positive attitude on a daily basis. Right? So what to
do?
It is all a matter of how you utilize the criticisms. Criticism
is a tool. Do you carry negative feedback around with you like dark cloud over
your head? Or like backpack weighed down with heavy boulders? Hopefully not. It
is a skill, like everything else, but learn to use critiques as positive items. Like stepping stones in
a stream.
I heard about a writer who collected rejection letters like
trophies and posted them all over his walls. The idea was that after enough of
them were collected, enough feedback would have been given to make him a great
writer. But this would only happen after lots
of rejection letters were received. The writer then rejoiced (well, maybe
not rejoiced ), but appreciated each rejection as being one
step closer to the goal.
So use critiques like that writer used rejection letters.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Motivational Secret #90:
“Don’t carry your mistakes
around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping
stones.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“The
trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by
criticism.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
― Norman Vincent Peale
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